LEO

JUST AN UGLY CHARACTER TO CREEP OUT THE GUY SITTING NEXT TO ME @ WORK. YES, HIS NAME IS LEO AND HE DOESN'T LIKE IT. I WALLPAPERED MY MONITORS WITH THIS GUY SO LEO CAN WAVE BACK TO HIS NEW ADMIRER.

Cintiq Morning Exercise

Ninja Assassin

Ninja Assassin looks amazing! Non stop action! What else can one wish for???

Catch of the day!

Tonight is the big nite, Wings vs. Penguins game 7!!!
My prediction of what's to come.....can you smell what's cookin'?

Ultraman cont....

Ultraman!

My take on Ultraman for a animated series. He was of my favorites when I was a kid along with Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot. I'll whip up some action poses to go along with this static pose.

The 2nd Beerisode is Finally Complete!

Check out Beer Me Bro blog for the latest on the 2nd beerisode.

Rough Layout

The latest beerisode for my Beer Me Bro site is almost complete! Here's one of the last layouts for the animated short titled "Beer-Aid".

Morning Bliss

Noodle Doodle

Random Non-sense

6 Pack

It's a another 6 pack Friday!

Thug

Been reading several books on Detroit's infamous gang, "The Purple Gang", and others when America went dry and prohibition was law in Detroit's dark corrupt days. Growing up in the Downriver area south of Detroit I heard countless tales of how they would smuggle booze across the Detroit River. It's amazing how much bootlegging was going on from Detroit to Wyandotte all the way down to Lake Erie. From Canada to Michigan about 80% of illicit booze crossed the river, much of it operated by organized crime, if not you were playing Russian roulette with your life if you were caught by these ruthless thugs.

Fighting the cold

-For those of you still fighting the cold-

Creature from the Black Lagoon

It's been a long damn time, but here's the first for '09'. Ha! It rhymes. This one I actually sketched out on Halloween, but never got to the scanner- better late than never, right...

New Concepts in Development

Rednecks in Space trailer's....

CHECK IT OUT!
If you haven't seen it back in '06' before it was stripped off youtube, take a look now. I have added a bonus trailer with the Rednecks theme song created by the talented Dan Franklin.

Rednecks in Space Blog

Beer Me Bro Blog

Beirme Blog
*ALL NEW POSTS WILL BE ADDED TO MY BEER ME BRO BLOG CHECK IT OUT!*

Beer Me Bro Blog

The Beirme Blog is just getting started. I'll be posting a little development as I progress to the final stages of every Beerisode starting with the next one. I'll also have some Beirme sitings and history on our little pal.

Beer Me Bro site up!

The 1st Beerisode is now up on BeerMeBro.com with more on their way every two weeks! I'll have a formal launch when everything is up and running like the shop, games and etc., but for now the first short is up, "Beer Me Not". If you click on the download page check out the vingtage beer commericals from the 50's, I think you'll dig. Oh, and don't forget to download the Beerisodes as they pour in from the tap they should fit nicely on your ipod. Well go check it out and enjoy!!!

New Site!

I thought it would be good to go today, but no such luck. I'm very close to completing the first of 13 Beerisodes. New Beerisodes will be posted every two wks. every Monday. So far 8 of them have already been recorded and they came out great with much props to the voice behind all the characters in these Beerisodes, the talented Eric Bauza.

The site should up and running real soon, I promise! Thanx for being patient with me folks! Much apologies.....

35 of 35 The Final Piece!

Here's your last piece of the the puzzle. I'll be waiting to see who has done their homework and the first person to turn it in gets the golden egg. So Wednesday the 3rd, I'll post the completed picture and launch the new site I've been working on for the past 6 wks. Yeah!

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HERE'S WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE IF YOUR CURRENT WITH YOUR HOMEWORK

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If anyone enjoys puzzles, here's one for ya. 35 pieces to the puzzle, 35 days to launch the new site! Once this puzzle is put together it'll reveal the main character for the new site I've been working on.

The first one who puts this together and sends it back to me via e-mail, will recieve a FREE limited edition T-shirt of the character signed and numbered. No rules of assembly, print and cut, or do it digitally. Hope you guys will dig it, and I can't wait to hear from your comments once this thing takes off! Have fun!!!

...COMING SOON...

Coming soon to a .com near you!

In September I'll be launching a new site with animated shorts, all gag based none of that bla, bla, yappidy, yappidy, crap. Interactive games and tons of other cool goodies!

!STAY TOONED!

Post-It

Cheers!

The Law

Here's a rough I did yesterday on my break. Just needs a pass or two on clean up then I'll add some purty colors. Gotta get my hands dirty with some of that digital paint. Wish me luck....

Sorry for the lack of posts but it's been busy as heck around here. Here's a few sketches I've done over the past week...more to come I promise!!!

Post-It

Scraps

Just to stay a little sane from the grips of flash I find myself doing these ugly drawings. Not so pretty, but fun as hell!

Another Meaningless Sketch

This morning's warm up doodles

Doodle?

doo·dle1 /ˈdudl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[dood-l] verb, -dled, -dling, noun –verb (used with object), verb (used without object)

1.	to draw or scribble idly: He doodled during the whole lecture.

2.	to waste (time) in aimless or foolish activity.

3.	Dialect. to deceive; cheat.

–noun

4.	a design, figure, or the like, made by idle scribbling.

5.	Archaic. a foolish or silly person.

Hey bloggers! Been busy ass hell working on a whole slum of pilots and a variety of TV series. This is a page of doodles I did in between animating on the new hit animated series EL-TIGRE. I thought I'd throw this out since I haven't posted any "doodles" in a while, and boy does it show! It sure was fun to break away from the mindless key framing and 'tweening in Flash, something I should do more often.

Recently I've been fishin' around in the blog ponds and happin' to snag a doodle or two from others. Funny thing though, they claimed them to be doodles, but they were far from what the definition above describes. They were more clean than most of my cleaned up pieces of dung, on top of that they had a nice treatment of color. Looks great, but far from a waste of time, haphazard, mindless scribble. Maybe it's just me. I've been far from scribblin' on the paper and mostly pushing those symbols around. Damn Flash!!! My best bet is to just reach deep, deep, deep down in the pockets for some change and pick up one of those fancy Cintiq's. Maybe, just maybe then will my doodles sparkle like one of those I caught in the blog pond. Anyway that's my rant of the day don't mind me, I think it's just the weather. Have a happy DOODLE DANDY DAY everybody !!!

MY HEROES!

left to right: Yours truly (the new hobit hero), JACK COLMAN (Mr. Bennet), MIKE JACKOBSON, GREG GRUNBERG (Matt Parkman), SENDHIL RAMAMURTHY (Mohinder Suresh), & DEVON ROTH.

Last Friday we bumped into 3 cast members of the new hit series "HEROES" during lunch in Hollywood. Pretty awesome to see the fellas on on the street and they were cool enough to pose for the pic. I do have to say that I was a lil' paranoid though, I kept peaking around the corner for the evil power sucking Sylar! Can't afford to lose my doodle abilities! I

The New Arrival: PALOMA ANGELICA

PALOMA AT 2WKS

LOGAN & PALOMA

TIANA, PALOMA, & LOGAN

Yup we did it again! We just added our newest hatchling Paloma Angelica to the fam.
She was born February 7th at 8 lbs. / 3 oz. and 18 in. long!
She's now over 5 wks old and startin' to pick up the pencil. Maybe by next week I'll have some beautiful rendered sketches to post!

Animation is Complete!

Pops caught in the act

Yup! All scenes are now approved and going through the magical compositing stage. As soon as we're done compositing the shots we'll send it over to the musician to add original music and the sounds efx will be tackled here in house. Our aim is to get this whole thing in the can around the 1st week of February. Can't wait to share it with you all and I'll keep you posted on the final stages of Rednecks in Space.

Old Redneck Designs

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!


I made this poster for a pitch back in 2004. As you can see I changed the title to The Simpleton's for a more pleasant/ less offensive title. I felt I betrayed the characters and strayed from my original vision so afterwards I scratched The Simpleton's and changed it back to Rednecks in Space, but that of coarse was after I was rejected. Ha!

These two turnarounds I did back in 2003 of Billy & Elvis. As you can see Billy has a more sexy slim physique, his beer belly is just starting to blossom. Elvis's pompadour is in it's infancy stage.

The year 2000, damn 7 yrs ago! Oh well here's the first designs of Rednecks (dot-com boom).
They were conceived in a small coffee shop in Santa Monica just off the 3rd St. Promenade. They were created with the intentions making web shorts, but with lack of story it never saw the light of day so it was shelved for several years. It would take about two years to dust 'em off, redevelop them with distinctive personalities and think of a real world that they could reek havoc in, but that was just the beginning... I hope you guys dig the early stuff as well as the new and I hope to bring you the final Rednecks in Space short to you early as February. Thanx again for your support fellas!!!

Asterix

I thought I'd share some fun clips of Asterix I found on youtube. Although I don't understand a lick of the language, I still love the characters. Enjoy!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

---LOGAN & TIANA---

Fam Pics

Logan caught red-handed!
Lil' Stud Logan-on Disney cruise
Princess Tiana, me, & Logan on Castaway Cay Bahamas
Yeah!!! The New Guy/Girl? Coming Soon...February!!!

Hootch Truck

On our last houseboat trip last April in Tennessee we tied up in a cove to protect ourselves from high winds. Little did we know that 4 tornados touched down in the local area and 40 people died in a neighboring county.

This picture was taken early in the morning before the storm hit. A short hike up the hill from where the boat was tied up we discovered this find, an abandoned moonshine distillery. As you can see in the bed of this old Chevy is the brewing tank. The tank was tipped over after someone hacked it up with an axe. Beautiful find!

REDNECKS TRAILER!!!

Here's a first look at Rednecks in Space. Be warned there is strong language so it's not suitable for you youngsters out there!!! This was put together about a week ago to show at MIPCOM, but Fed-X screwed that one up, so here it is for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy, and remember it's still work in progress, so there are elements and animated shortcuts throughout the trailer but it still rocks!

***Don't forget to check out what's in the works at Tire Fire Films ***

Final Trans-Am Build

Well it's finally in, the final build for Billy & Elvis's ride-the flying Trans-Am. I'd like to thank my buds John Aquino for the awesome 3-D build and Tim Pixton for the kick-ass vector look! Well now I have total control how the car will animate in flash, that way we can keep the character and the car animation looking pretty seemless in timing and feel. The car has complete turns from every angle and all you have to do is call out the instance and your set. Just add an lil' stretch and squash here and there and BAM! The car comes to life.

The Rednecks short is near final completion, just 27 shots left most of which are the car. Maybe in two more weeks all animation will be final. (fingers crossed)!

Thanks for all your support and fun e-mails. I can't wait to show you guys the final product! Stay tooned!
Rob

REDNECK MODEL SHEETS

EARL (aka. DICKFACE)

Here's a lil' fun sketch I did for the Rednecks in Space short. I even did the voice.

Well we 're officially 3 and half weeks in animation on a 6 min. short and the scenes are looking pretty damn awesome! It's exciting as hell to see these guys finally breath some life after so many years sitting there as doodles. I hoping to finish animation in another two weeks. I'll keep my fingers crossed on that note.....

REDNECK BG'S

HERE ARE TWO BG'S CREATED BY THE TALENTED

ANGELO VILLAR

EXT. SHOT ON BILLY & ELVIS'S TRAILER ON EARTH

INT. SHOT ON THE TRANS-AM DASHBOARD

NUNE

NUNE (Zaan's right-hand alien)

More Redneck Development

THE EVIL ALIEN MOB BOSS- ZAAN

BILLY & ELVIS'S FLYING TRANS-AM

Finally!!!

Well I am excited to say that Rednecks in Space is currently in development for a 6 min. short. It only took what, 6 yrs. to get this thing in gear. If it weren't for the boys over at Six Point Harness kicking me in the ass to get this thing into action, I don't think it would ever see the light of day. Thank you dudes!

It's been about three weeks now and we have a final script thanks to Alain Matz. I just finished the turns on Billy and Elvis. (the two fellas posted above) My pal Kelsey Mann is currently bustin' out the boards. And just this past Wednesday we recorded the voices for our Rednecks and aliens! The talented Eric Bauza voiced Billy and the alien mob boss Zaan. Matt Danner did the voices for Elvis and the alien thug Nune. And last but not least, the voice for Billy and Elvis's dad Pops.......... David Arquette! He kicked ass playing a pissy 'ole fart of a father confined to an iron lung. Incredible job man! Thanx again for a wonderful job fellas! I couldn't be happier with the results.

If you want to follow the progress of the short I will be posting drawings, animatics and some dialogue on Six Point Harness blog. http://tirefirefilms.blogspot.com/ Also check development of "Sir Leo McMight the Foot Tall Knight", "Clawdad", "The Ape Hangers", and "Roaches on the Moon"on the Tire Fire blog.

Logan Update (8mo.)

He'll be signing autographs at your local Babies 'R' Us- Pictures will be extra...
Lil' Logan's nap time. I wish I had the picture of him grabbing the dog and kicking him out. Damn! Maybe next time.

Space Chick

This was a qucik sketch I did yesterday

to warm up a bit before I started the

day. I'd like to refine it a bit more and see

how it evolves. Maybe try to experiment

more with digital painting, textures and all

that fun stuff.

Butler

The Nicktoons Film Festival

IF YOU LOVE CARTOONS AND HAVE SOME GREAT IDEAS FOR
AN ANIMATED SHORT. YOU NEED TO READ THIS!

$10,000 Film Fest Prize for Animation  The Nicktoons
Film Festival is accepting animated shorts (up to 10
minutes in length), between now and May 31, 2006 for
its annual competition.  Shorts selected for the
fest air on the Nicktoons channel during August and
one will be selected to win a $10,000 Grand Prize.
Judges include Seth  MacFarlane of Family Guys fame.
Any medium of animation is acceptable: flash, 
traditional cel, stop-motion or CG. For more info go
to:www.nicktoonsnetwork.com/shows/animfest/
And check out the blog at:
http://newtoons.frederator.com/nicktoons

Jesse Jane

Here's a series of poses that were used in six different 4 second animated title cards for an education segment on how to spice up those home videos starring no other than, Jesse Jane. After the title cards flash by the legendary porn star will take the stage, in the flesh, on how to better your performance, (no, not that way!) on staging, lighting, wardrobe, etc..! You'll have to tune in to the Playboy Channel to see the final piece. (viewer discretion is advised you perverts!)

Cereal Killers

Ahhh...just finished this piece for Doktor Viktor Von Kreep's latest book called"CEREAL KILLERS". The line-up of artists he has for this book will knock your sox off. So save up those pennies and tuck 'em away 'till the book hits the shelves!!!

Lil' Lo

Little Logan 5 mo. old!

Konstatin Valov

A must see Konstatin Valov!!!. One of the many talented people over here at Six Point Harness. Check out some of his caricatures and incredible photography pieces linked here.

Konstantin Valov's Blog

Fairfield

Here's a concept sketch of Mr. X I did for a short film being produced/directed by my bud Mr. Kelsey Mann. It follows the dark tale of a hit man caught in a trap of deception. All artists contributing to this film noir animated short are working professionals doing what they do best on their free time without the influence of pesky executives. To see more and follow the development of the project click here--- Fairfield Blog

Sketch of the Day

Happy New Year!

Hope everyone had a great 2005, so here's to a blazin' 2006!

Christmas Card-2005

After much procrastination and one week before Christamas day it's finally done, my first watercolor! After seeing all these talented blog freeks using watercolor, it motivated me to pick up a brush and give it a swirl. Not what I had invisioned and not as easy as I thought it would be, but it sure was a lotta fun! Hope to do some more in the near future. If anyone knows of a class that teaches the secrets of watercolor in the LA area and doesn't charge Gnomon rates, please let me know!!!

2 Old Portfolio Pages circa 1999

Christmas Card Development

I'm gonna attempt to do a christmas card in watercolor, which I've never done before. So here are the 1st thumbnails of the Grinch and an adult version of Cindy Lou. The one up on top is probably the layout I'll choose but everything is still work in progress. If you guys have any suggestions, I'm all ears

Sasquatch Development

---Sorry for the poor scans---

Here are some very rough sketches for a short story I abandoned, hopefully when I find the time I'd like to see it through.

Zoo Quick Sketches

..here comes Santa Claus...

HAPPY HOLIDAYS !

The kids with Santa: Logan on the left & Tiana on the right

Puffy Ami Yumi

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving weekend! I don't know about you, but I'm still shaking the dreaded turkey coma....Damn wake up! Well it's 1:15am and I just finished diaper duty, so I thought I should post a couple of things before the day ends and the new day begins. My lazy ass hasn't created anything new so here are a couple of models from the Puffy Ami Yumi show to keep you occupied for the time being, hope u enjoy!!!

Jungle man in his prime and after a couple of years of marriage and many beers later...

Witch Doctor w/shrunken head

Two variations of the Queen

More RNS Bg's

...Redneck Lair...

Sasquatch

...teenage sasquatch....

Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Designs

some rough imaginary friends I designed Foster's...

... this is a rejected design...
... here's a imaginary friend that reminds me of a cross btw. Jim Carey and some zoological creatures.

Rednecks in Space BG's

This is something that's been in development for about 6 years now. It's "Dukes of Hazard" meets "X-Files" with a twist of "Gilligan's Island". I don't know what my fascination is about trailers and the people that live in these metallic boxes. All I know is that it would make a great animated series! Who would'nt want to see aliens and rednecks (not hillbillies-big difference) throwing down on a replica planet earth. I've been sitting on it for far too long and by posting it I hope it'll be the kick in the ass I need to get it going again. I'd love to talk about the story but time is a huge factor, nor do I want to bore you guys. So here it is.... Rednecks in Space, on public display for your review and critique. I hope you like and one day when I get the courage I'll post the characters.

Here's where all the trailer trash goes once the gangster aliens abduct them

Gangster aliens baydock

Gangster aliens transport tunnel
This is the evil gangster alien Zaan's lair- A large place for a small dude who has a huge attitude!

Another Doodle

Friday's doodle cleaned and colored in flash.

Cartoon Brew

I just wanted to say thanks to Amid for the post on Cartoon Brew!!! Love your site! Can't tell ya how inspiring and informative the site is! If anyone has'nt check out Amid's new blog, Cartoon Modern on 50's design it's a must see!


Sample from the blog "The Rover Boys"

Work Doodle

Did this one yesterday at work. Kinda weak so today I wanna see if I can push the shapes a lil' more. I don't think there is enough contrast btw. body and head, and in the facial features. The first sketch usually comes out rather blaaa. Now that I have that outta the way I can push and pull the shapes hopefully giving it a some kind of appeal.

Doodles

Here are some random doodles I did at work. I feel it's a great way to break up the monotony of the day and to free up my mind when starring at a computer all day. Not too mention it's a lot of fun!

LA Zoo

Here are some skethces from Monday. A group of us went out to the LA Zoo for lunch and attempted to excercise our rusty hands...Anyone out there with a can of WD-40?

Gettin' Paid to Draw

Had some fun freelancing for Renegade Animation Studios on Puffy Ami Yumi....thanx fellas for the great assignments!

The Missing Link

Here's a beaut' of a friend of mine, Mr. Kellman. After he gave notice of his departure from CN the Foster's animators went to town caricaturing their hero and made him a book. Man if you could see all those kick ass sketches that poured out! Well here's to you Craig....and sorry for the ugly sketch.

Flashback 80's

Ahhhh....yes 1983 what a great year for rock and roll!!! Def Leppard's Pyromania, Ozzy's Bark at the Moon, Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind and much, much more! Here's a couple of drawings I did back in the day. If I recall correctly, I think I was in 4th grade and portable walkmans just came out. Like I said what a great year!!!

Voila! A Master Piece!

After being in prodution for roughly 9 months my son Logan Amadeo arrived on September 29th 2005. My best piece I've created yet! Well I can't take all the credit for this one, you see my wife Wendy was on the production side and took the role of pre-production and right now we're in post. I'll keep ya guys posted on how this one turns out. Damn---now I have to plan for a wrap party!!!